Art and Design
The Art and Design curriculum at Holbeach Bank Academy continues to provide opportunities where pupils are able to express themselves creatively and emotionally. Teachers ensure that cross-curricular links are made throughout each topic area and allow the children to build upon previous knowledge as well as develop a wider range of skills.
Art at HBA gives us the chance to develop our understanding of not only the world around us but also the thoughts of others and ourselves. Our own creativity and imagination is explored alongside the technical aspects of different techniques and mediums. The role of significant figures from world history of art and design (both functional and aesthetical) are key to the curriculum as they give us context and comparisons to our own work. They also allow us to develop our understanding of artistic movements and the importance of self-expression and continued development in the world of industry.
Art and Design Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement
Intent
At Holbeach Bank Academy, we aim to cultivate creative children who are inspired through our delivery of the creative arts. Curriculum planning identifies and emphasises core knowledge at each phase. This includes, for example, ways of making art as well as its historical and cultural development. We have made strategic decisions about what practical knowledge is core to our curriculum. We know we need to focus on drawing skills and on resilience and independence with more open-ended learning.
Our high-quality art curriculum and cross curricular links provide a real purpose to our children’s creative projects. This is designed to develop individuality in their creations. It is imperative to us that our children are able to explore their creativity through a range of materials. The National Curriculum for art and design aims to ensure that all pupils:
· Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
· Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.
· Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design.
· Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
Holbeach Bank Academy encourages creativity from the very beginning of children’s schooling experience. This is done through Expressive Arts and Design in EYFS. The EYFS has a child-initiated approach which allows children to flourish throughout the different areas in the room.
Implementation
When delivering the creative curriculum at Holbeach Bank Academy, there is a real focus on teaching the children new skills and techniques. To ensure art lessons provide the children with a real sense of purpose, sessions and activities relate directly to the class topic. These cross-curricular links help immerse the children in their art sessions and ensure they are memorable. An example of this is Years 4, 5 and 6 creating a Roman bust out of clay during their I Am Warrior topic. We intend for the children at Holbeach Bank Academy to receive a balanced and varied exposure to the creative arts. We ensure that a variety of materials are incorporated in art lessons with clear progression of skills throughout each year group. Children are given opportunities to draw from life as well as from their imagination and are encouraged to evaluate their own work and set next steps for themselves. Teachers revisit previous topics or teach the content of missed ones, placing more emphasis on developing mastery in the process of making rather than a performative final outcome.
This skill-building includes the use of oil pastels, pastels, chalk, clay, water paints, pencil crayons, wax crayons and acrylic paints, collage materials and more. This range ensures children have an open and broad approach to what art can encompass. Throughout the school our children cover a range of artists and in Key Stage 2, they have the opportunity to research an artist and create a fact file. We provide our children with the opportunity to be creative both in and out of the classroom; incorporating art and design into outdoor learning and after-school clubs.
Impact
We hope that at key stage1, pupils’ will demonstrate skills in manipulating tools and equipment to create work and use their imagination. Children will develop and embed fine and gross motor skills and use a range of tools competently. This includes cutting with scissors and using the correct grip for specific art tools.
We hope at key stage 2, depth and mastery of pupils’ practical knowledge, such as different artistic methods, techniques, media and materials is secure. This will allow pupils to communicate, record and create effectively. The significant time for deliberate practice, reencountering the core knowledge in different contexts and with growing complexity will develop mastery (for example, drawing with pencil, ink and wire). Children will demonstrate practical knowledge and encompass multiple applications, for example, drawing representationally, drawing expressively and drawing unconventionally. Children will be able to express understanding of the multiple forms in which art exists and secure their knowledge of the subject’s breadth and diversity.
Key Stage One – Winter Art and Crafts Club
On a Thursday after school, Miss Pegg hosts a winter art and crafts club. Keep an eye out for our creations here!